RISC-V More Than A Core

Brian Bailey of Simconductor Engineeringis considers open-source and the RISC-V ISA and discusses thr reuirement of continued industry support for it to be successful.

The open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is attracting a lot of attention across the semiconductor industry, but its long-term success will depend on levels of cooperation never seen before in the semiconductor industry. The big question now is how committed the industry is to RISC-V’s success.

In his article he shares data on design costs (above) from Handel Jones, and interviews executives from many companies including Kevin McDermott, VP Marketing, Imperas.